Trump to meet with Japanese prime minister ahead of potential North Korea summit
Source: The Washington Post
By David Nakamura
May 28 at 11:01 AM
President Trump agreed Monday to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of a potential summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to Japanese officials, a chance for Trump and Abe to coordinate their strategy amid concerns in Tokyo over the prospective peace talks.
Trump and Abe spoke by phone on Memorial Day as a U.S. delegation was negotiating with North Korean counterparts in a bid to keep alive the June 12 summit in Singapore, which Trump announced last week he was canceling. After a more conciliatory statement from Pyongyang, however, the president has said that the summit could be back on. A separate U.S. team led by White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin and deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel is in Singapore to coordinate logistics.
A meeting between Trump and Abe could come on the sidelines of the Group of 7 economic summit in Quebec from June 8 to 9, but it is also possible that Abe will swing by Washington en route to that conference, a Japanese official said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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